c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." — Steve Jobs
"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition." — Alan Turing
"I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself." — Kim Kardashian
"America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols." — Bill Shuster
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." — Lao Tzu
"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." — William Blake
"I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects." — Jack L. Chalker
"I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country." — Rahm Emanuel
"And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can." — Tom Felton
"The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals." — Zach Braff
"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him." — Charles Kendall Adams
"If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work." — Tim Hardaway
"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people." — Mikhail Baryshnikov
"When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny." — Scott Thompson
"People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy." — Summer Altice
"Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked." — Steve Wozniak
"I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist." — Bobby Fischer
"When I was 14, I felt very rundown I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that." — Gus Van Sant
"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god." — Napoleon Bonaparte
"I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets." — Jolene Blalock
"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water." — Miguel de Cervantes
"We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today." — William Hague
"My definition of success is control." — Kenneth Branagh
"Some people change when they think they're a star or something." — Paris Hilton
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him." — Trevor Rabin
"There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!" — Jimmy Smits
"I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with." — Diane von Furstenberg
"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"Time is generally the best doctor." — Ovid
"I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries." — Jose Manuel Barroso
"I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad." — Norma McCorvey
"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table." — Moshe Dayan
"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ." — John Calvin
"It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent." — Nick Offerman
"I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!" — Leslie Nielsen
"We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers." — Donna Shalala
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." — Fred Allen
"People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look." — Adele
"My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that." — Trey Parker
"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home." — David Suzuki
"As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change." — Elizabeth Gilbert
"No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness." — Graham Greene
"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media." — Bruce Jackson
"The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us." — Peter Ustinov
"Love is a game that two can play and both win." — Eva Gabor
"Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs." — Bill Gates
"God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part." — Eamon de Valera
"I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first." — Haile Gebrselassie
"I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be." — John Stamos
"Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about." — Iain Duncan Smith
"Action is the real measure of intelligence." — Napoleon Hill
"As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue." — David Korten
"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface." — Jaron Lanier
"My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'" — Amber Heard
"If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account." — Al Goldstein
"I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress." — Emma Roberts
"I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them." — Rory McIlroy
"The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest." — Chen Shui-bian
"Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence." — J. G. Stedman
"The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music." — Michael Jackson
"Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone." — Anna Nicole Smith
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." — Thomas A. Edison
"Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place." — Meat Loaf
"I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses." — Maurice Gibb
"The course of true love never did run smooth." — William Shakespeare
"And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected." — Chris Christie
"My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate." — Angie Stone
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government." — Aristotle
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination." — Arthur Wing Pinero
"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone." — Thomas Hobbes
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses." — Andrew Jackson
"Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"I'm thankful for every moment." — Al Green
"I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it." — John Mayer
"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist." — J. Paul Getty
"You aren't learning anything when you're talking." — Lyndon B. Johnson
"Political courage is not political suicide." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure." — Phyllis McGinley
"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science." — George Andrew Olah
"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive." — Albert Schweitzer
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." — Leonardo DaVinci
"Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest." — Richard V. Allen
"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward." — Minna Antrim
"This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later." — Laura Schlessinger
"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less." — Arthur Miller
"Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it." — William Blackstone
"Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'" — Sue Monk Kidd
"Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war." — Hans Kung
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones." — William Shakespeare
"The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection." — Malcolm Gladwell
"Power in America today is control of the means of communication." — Theodore White
"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time." — Khloe Kardashian
"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you." — Les Brown
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were." — Richard Bach
"So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled." — Daniel Greenberg
"Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age." — Mike Judge
"Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit." — Misha Collins
"I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story." — Dierks Bentley
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." — Aeschylus
"You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi." — Marilu Henner
"I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides." — Joe Scarborough
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." — Robert H. Schuller
"Doubt grows with knowledge." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I am a thing of beauty." — Frank Sinatra
"On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing." — Tim Tebow
"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life." — Tennessee Williams
"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge." — Patrick Campbell
"Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits." — Andrew Greeley
"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation." — Salvador Dali
"With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one." — Ginnifer Goodwin
"The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems." — Paul Farmer
"I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes." — Christine O'Donnell
"All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on." — Gerry Cooney
"There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things." — Shia LaBeouf
"Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed." — Steven Spielberg
"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed." — Epictetus
"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." — Laurence J. Peter
"The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked." — Enya
"The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them." — Kristen Stewart
"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience." — Saint Ambrose
"Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it." — Simon Callow
"Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it." — Bryant H. McGill
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there." — Oscar Wilde
"To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry." — John Tesh
"I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines." — Paul Wellstone
"Art must take reality by surprise." — Francoise Sagan
"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both." — John F. Kennedy
"Women love working together. That's my experience anyway." — Shirley MacLaine
"Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands." — Marquis de Sade
"I love going to movies." — Serena Williams
"I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue." — Harvey Weinstein
"We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different." — Jeffrey Sachs
"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year." — Paul Sweeney
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." — Denis Waitley
"Adversity is the first path to truth." — Lord Byron
"The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared." — Guy Finley
"My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything." — James Dyson
"No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself." — Allen Klein
"France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history." — Francois Mitterrand
"'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life." — Jonah Hill
"These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell." — Jose Canseco
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." — Helen Keller
"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America." — Marilyn vos Savant
"Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world." — Ted Nugent
"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best." — George Eliot
"My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year." — Mila Kunis
"No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal." — Joni Mitchell
"It's really sad that the kids today can only relate to Beethoven via a rock version of his music." — Walter Murphy
"Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'" — Dave Parnas
"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it." — Sai Baba
"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it." — Andy Goldsworthy
"Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands." — Jerry Lewis
"In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee - or laugh." — Robert Orben
"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do." — Samuel Richardson
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future." — Denis Waitley
"I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning." — P. J. O'Rourke
"I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough." — Jane Pauley
"You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others." — Steffi Graf
"What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true." — Mia Love
"Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment." — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy." — Ramsey Clark
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress." — Calvin Coolidge
"You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us." — Thom Mayne
"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false." — Thomas Aquinas
"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death." — Berenice Abbott
"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith." — Christopher Fry
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." — Helen Keller
"The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality." — Andrew Jackson
"I have never, not once, violated my public trust." — Alan Mollohan
"You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me." — Black Elk
"I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group." — Franka Potente
"You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon." — Kevin Smith
"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world." — William Shenstone
"Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones." — Melanie Laurent
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it." — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life." — Marat Safin
"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none." — Andrew Jackson
"All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time." — Otto Dix
"I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli." — Hugh Jackman
"Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great." — Katherine Jenkins
"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night." — Marian Wright Edelman
"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled." — John Ruskin
"It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control." — Red Adair
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." — Harriet Beecher Stowe
"My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region." — Shimon Peres
"Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books." — Dr. Seuss
"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers." — Janis Joplin
"Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself." — Jack Nicklaus
"I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home." — Gary Vaynerchuk
"I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs." — John Mellencamp
"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry." — Virginia Woolf
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." — Abraham Lincoln
"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared." — Barack Obama
"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children." — Lord Mountbatten
"Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring." — William Alexander
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." — Winston Churchill
"The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair." — Jose Bergamin
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility." — Mohamed El-Erian
"You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family." — Anita Baker
"We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water." — George Saunders
"This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it." — Andrew Bogut
"The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes." — Kate Atkinson
"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature." — Alexander Pope
"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness." — Tadao Ando
"Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated." — James Dean
"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food." — Cyril Connolly
"My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view." — William Bartram
"I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids." — Selena Gomez
"God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple." — Jean Claude Van Damme
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death." — Rosalind Russell
"And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic." — Mike Myers
"Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free." — Scott Adams
"Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it." — Archibald Alexander
"I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes." — Tracey Ullman
"For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men." — Isabel Allende
"And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not." — Ginni Rometty
"People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior." — Joel Osteen
"I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear." — Thomas Friedman
"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since." — Salvador Dali
"In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children." — Carol Bellamy
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." — George Bernard Shaw
"The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?" — Susan George
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." — James Russell Lowell
"As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that." — Hugh Jackman
"Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to." — Bill Cosby
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'." — Bob Newhart
"The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!" — Jerry Seinfeld
"The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings." — Erykah Badu
"Medical physics is an applied area of physics." — John Cameron
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work." — Mark Twain
"And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust." — Elton John
"All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended." — Kurt Sutter
"Wisdom is found only in truth." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error." — Thomas Merton
"My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring." — Christian Bale
"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage." — Peter Paul Rubens
"I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake." — Joe Cornish
"The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself." — Christy Turlington
"My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!" — Rachael Ray
"We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people." — Pope Benedict XVI
"And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so." — Ed Miliband
"A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race." — Joseph Smith, Jr.
"My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films." — Corey Hart
"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age." — Thomas B. Macaulay
"I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough." — Roberto Cavalli
"The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ." — Pope Benedict XVI
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." — George Washington
"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?" — Virginia Woolf
"I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose." — Willie Stargell
"If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim." — Robert Kennedy
"Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it." — J. K. Rowling
"Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration." — Paracelsus
"Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us." — Orison Swett Marden
"People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy." — Gary Oldman
"I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions." — Jenna Bush
"I like my home and I like the nature." — Billy Corgan
"It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect." — Aaliyah
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." — Horace Walpole
"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet." — Winston Churchill
"The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it." — John Podhoretz
"The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything." — Charlie Haden
"It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern." — Stephen Harper
"Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future." — Carol Bellamy
"I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts." — David Guterson
"Love is not consolation. It is light." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago." — George Porter
"The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day." — Leonardo DiCaprio
"I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I." — Barack Obama
"If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings." — Robert Patterson
"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great." — Ray Charles
"A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life." — Tab Hunter
"I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image." — Helena Bonham Carter
"The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually." — Joshua Foer
"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme." — Pablo Picasso
"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics." — Hillary Clinton
"If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure." — Jamie Moyer
"The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school." — Giada De Laurentiis
"There's more to life than movies." — Paul Walker
"My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left." — Mike Wallace
"Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed." — Josh Gad
"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." — Albert Einstein
"Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation." — Dalai Lama
"I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics." — Oscar Pistorius
"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium." — John B. S. Haldane
"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else." — Alphonse Karr
"It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good." — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
"The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30." — Charlie Rose
"Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work." — Faith Evans
"As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through." — Otto Dix
"I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism." — Francois Hollande
"You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest." — Denis Waitley
"When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always." — Rita Rudner
"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages." — Auguste Rodin
"Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them." — Alison Sweeney
"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life." — Leo Buscaglia
"It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head." — Bono